Definitions
Mental filtering is draining and straining all positives in a situation and, instead, dwelling on its negatives.
What is Filtering?
This is related to jumping to conclusions. In this case, you jump to the worst possible conclusion in every scenario, no matter how improbable it is.
What is Catastrophizing?
You have a big job interview tomorrow and go to bed thinking things like, what if my alarm doesn’t go off? What if then I’m late for the important meeting? What if I get fired after I’ve worked so hard for this job?
What is Catastrophizing?
T or F most people have more than one cognitive distortion?
What is true?
When you have rules that you set for yourself and others without considering the specifics of a circumstance.
What is Shoulds?
When you engage in thoughts of black or white, with no shades of gray, this type of cognitive distortion is leading you.
Polarization
When you to believe that you’re responsible for events that, in reality, are completely or partially out of your control.
What is Personalization?
Your friend is talking about their personal beliefs regarding parenting, and you take their words as an attack against your parenting style.
What is Personalization?
Someone can identify cognitive distortions by?
What is being mindful?
This distortion has you expecting other people will change their ways to suit your expectations or needs, particularly when you pressure them enough.
What is Fallacy of change?
you take an isolated negative event and turn it into a never-ending pattern of loss and defeat.
What is Overgeneralization?
When you either feel responsible or in control of everything in your and other people’s lives, or you feel you have no control at all over anything in your life.
What is Control fallacies?
It’s performance review time at your company, and your manager compliments your hard work several times. In the end, they make one improvement suggestion. You leave the meeting feeling miserable and dwell on that one suggestion all day long.
What is Filtering?
What are cognitive distortions?
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What is habitual errors in thinking?
What is Distorted thoughts?
When you take a single attribute and turn it into an absolute.
What is Global labeling?
This is similar to mental filtering. The main difference is that you dismiss it as something of no value when you do think of positive aspects.
What is Discounting the positive?
When you find yourself measuring every behavior and situation on a scale of fairness. Finding that other people don’t assign the same value of fairness to the event makes you resentful.
What is Fallacy of fairness?
He made me so made that I got high!
What is blaming?
What are ways to stop cognitive distortions?
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This cognitive distortion leads you to believe that the way you feel is a reflection of reality. "Feelings are facts"
What is Emotional reasoning?
When you interpret an event or situation negatively without evidence supporting such a conclusion. Then, you react to your assumption.
What is Jumping to conclusions?
When you find that you are making others responsible for how you feel.
What is Blaming?
Your boss tells you how comprehensive your report was, you discount it as something anyone else could do.
What is Discounting the positive?
Name 4 cognitive distortions
When you see your own opinions as facts of life. This is why you will go to great lengths to prove you’re right.
What is Always being right?